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|Year=1770 | |Year=1770 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
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| | |Headline=Future Professor Sneaks a Smoke When He Can't Play Bat and Ball | ||
|Salience=2 | |||
|Country=United States | |||
|State=RI | |||
|City=Newport | |||
|Age of Players=Youth | |||
|Text=<p>"When Saturday afternoon chanced to be rainy, and no prospect of bat and ball on the common, some half a dozen of us used now and then, to meet in an old wood-shed, that we shall never forget, and fume it away to our own wonderful aggrandizement."</p> | |Text=<p>"When Saturday afternoon chanced to be rainy, and no prospect of bat and ball on the common, some half a dozen of us used now and then, to meet in an old wood-shed, that we shall never forget, and fume it away to our own wonderful aggrandizement."</p> | ||
<p>"Use of Tobacco from Dr. Waterhouse's Lecture before Harvard University," < | <p>"Use of Tobacco from Dr. Waterhouse's Lecture before Harvard University," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Repertory</span>, September 3, 1829 ("from the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Columbian Centinel</span>.") Accessed via subscription search, May 5, 2009. From internal references, this appears to be an account of the well-known public anti-smoking lecture by Professor Benjamin Waterhouse in November 1804.</p> | ||
|Comment=<p><strong>Caution:</strong> dating this reference requires some assumptions. Waterhouse was born in 1754, and thus, if this recollection is authentic, he speaks of a penchant for ballplaying [and smoking] he held in his teens. He was born at Newport, RI and remained there until 1780.</p> | |||
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|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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Text | "When Saturday afternoon chanced to be rainy, and no prospect of bat and ball on the common, some half a dozen of us used now and then, to meet in an old wood-shed, that we shall never forget, and fume it away to our own wonderful aggrandizement." "Use of Tobacco from Dr. Waterhouse's Lecture before Harvard University," American Repertory, September 3, 1829 ("from the Columbian Centinel.") Accessed via subscription search, May 5, 2009. From internal references, this appears to be an account of the well-known public anti-smoking lecture by Professor Benjamin Waterhouse in November 1804. |
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